--- title: Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you not to shoot, saying to myself all the time, 'Perhaps he won't kill me; perhaps he'll relent and take me home with him!'" Who acts: you, I, King. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) / 105 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 105 Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you not to shoot, saying to myself all the time, 'Perhaps he won't kill me; perhaps he'll relent and take me home with him!'" **Who acts:** you, I, King · **What happens:** go, let, fly, keep, entreat, not shoot · **To what, where:** myself, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:26:105 # text = Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you not to shoot, saying to myself all the time, 'Perhaps he won't kill me; perhaps he'll relent and take me home with him!'" 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 on on SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 entreating entreat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 shoot shoot VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 relent relent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 home home ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | you | | | | time | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fly** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | past | I | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **entreat** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **shoot** | to-infinitive | you | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* | | myself | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient | | 8 | **not** **kill** | future | King | me | | | | perhaps *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 9 | **relent** | future | King | | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **take** | infinitive | King *not said here* | | me | | | with King; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/106/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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